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Charged and Neutral Currents in a 3-3-1 Model with Right-Handed Neutrinos
The charged and the neutral currents are obtained by using a formal
algebraical approach (developed and applied by the author) within the exact
solution of a 3-3-1 gauge model with right-handed neutrinos. The entire
Standard Model phenomenology is recovered without imposing any supplemental
condition, but only by choosing an adecquate set of parameters from the very
beginning of the calculus. A new and rich phenomenology regarding the particles
and their currents occurs as well. The appealing feature of our results resides
in the exact expressions of the currents which need not the adjustment usually
due to the small mixing angle between neutral bosons and
(like in the most of the papers in the literature treating the
same issue). The required mixing was considered and aleready performed as an
intermediate step by the solving method itself, since the physical eigenstates
of those bosons were determined and then identified in the neutral currents.Comment: 14 pages, 1 Table, no figure
Comparison of 120Sn(6He,6He)120Sn and 120Sn(alpha,alpha)120Sn elastic scattering and signatures of the 6He neutron halo in the optical potential
Cross sections of Sn(,)Sn elastic scattering
have been extracted from the particle beam contamination of a recent
Sn(He,He)Sn experiment. Both reactions are analyzed
using systematic double folding potentials in the real part and smoothly
varying Woods-Saxon potentials in the imaginary part. The potential extracted
from the Sn(He,He)Sn data may be used as the basis for
the construction of a simple global He optical potential. The comparison of
the He and data shows that the halo nature of the He nucleus
leads to a clear signature in the reflexion coefficients : the relevant
angular momenta with and are shifted to
larger with a broader distribution. This signature is not present in the
scattering data and can thus be used as a new criterion for the
definition of a halo nucleus.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
A schematic model for the direct cross-section in reactions induced by exotic and stable projectiles
A geometric model for the direct contribution of the reaction cross section
induced by light ions on different targets is presented. The model separates
the total reaction cross section into two components, one for total fusion and
another for direct reactions. We show that the direct part scales as , where is related to the nuclear radius and is the width of a ring,
which is related to the nuclear diffuseness. A simple expression is presented
to calculate the radius and the width parameter in terms of the masses
and charges of the system. The method is applied to experimental data of
exotic, weakly bound, and strongly bound projectiles on several targets.
Different diffuseness parameters were obtained for different types of
projectiles: exotic n-rich, stable weakly bound, stable strongly bound and
exotic p-rich exotic projectiles.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, 2 table
Remark on the vectorlike nature of the electromagnetism and the electric charge quantization
In this work we study the structure of the electromagnetic interactions and
the electric charge quantization in gauge theories of electroweak interactions
based on semi-simple groups. We show that in the standard model of the
electroweak interactions the structure of the electromagnetic interactions is
strongly correlated to the quantization pattern of the electric charges. We
examine these two questions also in all possible chiral bilepton gauge models
of the electroweak interactions. In all they we can explain the vectorlike
nature of the electromagnetic interactions and the electric charge quantization
together demanding nonvanishing fermion masses and the anomaly cancellations.Comment: 17 pages, latex, no figure
Anticancer properties of essential oils and other natural products
Essential oils are secondary metabolites with a key-role in plants protection, consisting primarily of terpenes with a volatile nature and a diverse array of chemical structures. Essential oils exhibit a wide range of bioactivities, especially antimicrobial activity, and have long been utilized for treating various human ailments and diseases. Cancer cell prevention and cytotoxicity are exhibited through a wide range of mechanisms of action, with more recent research focusing on synergistic and antagonistic activity between specific essential oils major and minor components. Essential oils have been shown to possess cancer cell targeting activity and are able to increase the efficacy of commonly used chemotherapy drugs including paclitaxel and docetaxel, having also shown proimmune functions when administered to the cancer patient. The present review represents a state-of-the-art review of the research behind the application of EOs as anticancer agents both in vitro and in vivo. Cancer cell target specificity and the use of EOs in combination with conventional chemotherapeutic strategies are also explored
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Assessing land-ocean connectivity via Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) in the Ria Formosa Lagoon (Portugal): combining radon measurements and stable isotope hydrology
Natural radioactive tracer-based assessments of basin-scale Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) are well developed, but because of the different modes in which SGD takes place and the wide range of spatial and temporal scales under which the flow and discharge mechanisms involved occur, quantifying SGD while discriminating its source functions remains a major challenge. Yet, correctly identifying both the fluid source and composition is critical: when multiple sources of the tracer of interest are present, failure to adequately discriminate between them will lead to inaccurate attribution and the resulting uncertainties will affect the reliability of SGD solute loading estimates. This lack of reliability then extends to the closure of local biogeochemical budgets, confusing measures aiming to mitigate pollution. Here, we report a multi-tracer study to identify the sources of SGD, distinguish its component parts and elucidate the mechanisms of their dispersion throughout the Ria Formosa – a seasonally hypersaline lagoon in Portugal. We combine radon budgets that determine the total SGD (meteoric + recirculated seawater) in the system with stable isotopes in water (2H, 18O), to specifically identify SGD source functions and characterize active hydrological pathways in the catchment. Using this approach, SGD in the Ria Formosa could be separated into a net water input and another involving no net water transfer, i.e. originating in seawater recirculation through permeable sediments. The former SGD mode is present occasionally on a multiannual timescale, while the latter is a permanent feature of the system. In the absence of meteoric SGD inputs, seawater recirculation through beach sediments occurs at a rate of ~ 1.4 × 106 m3 day−1, implying the entire tidal-averaged volume of the lagoon is filtered through local sandy sediments within 100 days, or about 3.5 times a year, driving an estimated nitrogen (N) load of ~ 350 t N yr−1 into the system as NO3−. Land-borne SGD could add a further ~ 61 t N yr−1 to the lagoon. The former source is autochthonous, continuous and responsible for a large fraction (59 %) of the estimated total N inputs into the system via non-point sources, while the latter is an occasional allochthonous source, so more difficult to predict, but capable of driving new production in the system
Neutrino oscillations from relativistic flavor currents
By resorting to recent results on the relativistic currents for mixed
(flavor) fields, we calculate a space-time dependent neutrino oscillation
formula in Quantum Field Theory. Our formulation provides an alternative to
existing approaches for the derivation of space dependent oscillation formulas
and it also accounts for the corrections due to the non-trivial nature of the
flavor vacuum. By exploring different limits of our formula, we recover already
known results. We study in detail the case of one-dimensional propagation with
gaussian wavepackets both in the relativistic and in the non-relativistic
regions: in the last case, numerical evaluations of our result show significant
deviations from the standard formula.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figures, RevTe
Uso de leguminosas na fitorremediação de solo contaminado com sulfentrazone.
RESUMO: Resíduos de sulfentrazone podem permanecer no solo por cerca de dois anos, oferecendo risco de contaminação a lençóis freáticos e possibilitando o cultivo de espécies susceptíveis. Diante disto, a fitorremediação pode representar uma opção para a descontaminação de áreas que sofreram com intensas aplicações deste herbicida. O presente trabalho avaliou o potencial remediador das espécies Crotalaria juncea, Canavalia ensiformis, Cajanus cajan e Cajanus cajan (anão), com relação ao herbicida sulfentrazone, utilizando-se o milheto (Pennisetum glaucum) como planta bioindicadora. O experimento foi instalado em casa-de-vegetação e os tratamentos compostos pela combinação entre as quatro espécies citadas, além da testemunha, e quatro doses de sulfentrazone (0 g i.a. ha-1, 200 g i.a. ha-1, 400 g i.a. ha-1 e 800 g i.a. ha-1). Foram avaliadas a altura de plantas, fitotoxicidade ao sulfentrazone e biomassa fresca e seca da parte aérea. Quando P. glaucum foi cultivado após C. juncea, apresentou maior ganho em biomassa e maior altura, e os sintomas de fitotoxicidade foram menos acentuados. C. juncea apresentou a maior capacidade de fitorremediar solos contaminados com sulfentrazone.ABSTRACT: Use of leguminous plants for phytoremediation of soil contaminated with sulfentrazone. Residual sulfentrazone may remain in the soil for around two years, being a source of groundwater contamination and preventing the growth of usceptible plants. So, phytoremediation may represent an option for decontaminating areas which were highly affected by applications of this herbicide. This study aimed at evaluating the potential of Crotalaria juncea, Canavalia ensiformis, Cajanus cajan and Cajanus cajan (dwarf) for remediation of soil contaminated with sulfentrazone, using millet (Pennisetum glaucum) as a bioindicator plant. The experiment was installed in a greenhouse and treatments consisted of the four species already mentioned, plus a control, and four sulfentrazone doses (0 g a.i. ha-1, 200 g a.i. ha-1, 400 g a.i. ha-1 and 800 g a.i. ha-1). Plants height, phytotoxicity to sulfentrazone and fresh and dry matter were evaluated. When P. glaucum was grown after C. juncea, the fresh and dry matter, as well as plant height, were higher, while the phytotoxicity symptoms were less evident. C. juncea showed the best results for phytoremediation of soils contaminated with sulfentrazone
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